Sharks and rays, including this beautiful guitarfish, Rhinobatis rhinobatis are risking it all, living in the greedy Mediterranean, where extinctions have become highly likely as many people refuse to acknowledge the need for conservation of the Sea itself, the fish, or even their own...

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The sheer magnificence of a high-performance, 3m (9.8 feet) predator in the North Pacific should excite anybody, but many still prefer to feast on the last few tuna left, 80% of them consumed in Japan (and OFC Japanese restaurants elsewhere.) The slaughter will stop, but maybe only wh...

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The blue morpho male butterflies, in this case Morpho rhetenor, are iconic, representative of the high canopies in which they fly effortlessly out-of-reach. With the old giant trees almost all logged out, how long can we keep any of the rich biodiversity of mammals, birds, reptiles, a...

There are only18 species of bat in the islands of the UK, which is a poor record compared to European or North American numbers. They range from the 5g pipistrelle to the big horseshoe bats, which are now considered related to the giant fruit bats, formerly known as megabats. (They al...

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The distinctive black and white colours should distinguish this dangerous spreader of disease, even if it is sub-lethal. From Florida to Fiume, viral infections of dengue and chikungunya have been reported much further north than was possible before global warming. Asian tiger image ;...

The mountain goat is the ancestor of all those animals we now rear as domestic goats. The wild ancestor is found from Afghanistan to the Cape Verde islands, along with many invasive feral domestics. Here we literally look at the goat and it looks back, hopefully not in anger. Goat ima...